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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
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Ruth Goodman
4.06 avg rating — 4,692 ratings 102. 
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
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Tony Horwitz
4.04 avg rating — 10,353 ratings 
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Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World 4.11 avg rating — 915 ratings
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
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Thomas Hager
4.18 avg rating — 5,017 ratings 102. 
I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
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Emily C. Bloom
4.10 avg rating — 431 ratings 102. 
Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight
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Nita Sweeney
3.89 avg rating — 54 ratings 102. 
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings 4.27 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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Series of Catastrophes and Miracles, A: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer 4.46 avg rating — 842 ratings
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,562 ratings
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
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Diana Preston
4.08 avg rating — 1,259 ratings 110. 
A Daily Dose of Now: 365 Mindfulness Meditation Practices for Living in the Moment
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Nita Sweeney
4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 110. 
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
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Celia Stahr
4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings 117. 
Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running With My Dog Brought Me Back From the Brink
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Nita Sweeney
3.72 avg rating — 1,922 ratings 
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The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures
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John Muir
4.12 avg rating — 1,553 ratings 122. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,460 ratings 125. 
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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Amy Stewart
3.76 avg rating — 5,184 ratings 125. 
The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice
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Michael Krondl
3.74 avg rating — 926 ratings 125. 
Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
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Tony Perrottet
3.83 avg rating — 530 ratings 128. 
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
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Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings 128. 
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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Michael Finkel
3.90 avg rating — 82,159 ratings 128. 
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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Tom Mueller
3.77 avg rating — 4,070 ratings 128. 
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.03 avg rating — 61,493 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 
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Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
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Lisa Woollett
4.24 avg rating — 235 ratings 
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The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World
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Aliya Whiteley
3.59 avg rating — 1,250 ratings 139. 
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II 4.51 avg rating — 37,428 ratings
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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
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Sarah Rose
3.77 avg rating — 6,236 ratings 142. 
Horrie The War Dog: The Story of Australia's Most Famous Dog
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Roland Perry
4.21 avg rating — 237 ratings 144. 
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
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Richard Hugo
4.18 avg rating — 3,029 ratings 144. 
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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Marcus Rediker
4.13 avg rating — 497 ratings 144. 
Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures
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Bill Schutt
3.90 avg rating — 1,117 ratings 147. 
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Way We Lived, The: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences
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Malcolm Margolin
4.24 avg rating — 115 ratings 151. 
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings 
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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Stefan Fatsis
3.82 avg rating — 5,577 ratings 
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Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
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Angela Garbes
4.21 avg rating — 11,875 ratings 155. 
Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day
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Peter Linebaugh
3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,701 ratings 
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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Joan Roughgarden
4.06 avg rating — 898 ratings 161. 
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,187 ratings 
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
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Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 165. 
Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet
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Susan Brackney
3.80 avg rating — 425 ratings 165. 
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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Olivia Laing
3.92 avg rating — 33,167 ratings 167. 
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women’s Movement
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Laura Swan
3.71 avg rating — 217 ratings 168. 
The Ghosts Of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
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Connie Barlow
3.78 avg rating — 279 ratings 169. 
Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
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Robert H. Patton
3.42 avg rating — 308 ratings 
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
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Steve Twomey
4.27 avg rating — 877 ratings 171. 
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age 4.16 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 171. 
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology (Yale Nota Bene S)
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Margaret Lowman
3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings 175. 
Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
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Sarah Lohman
3.95 avg rating — 2,742 ratings 175. 
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Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times 4.31 avg rating — 2,717 ratings
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Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, And The Revolution
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Will Bashor
3.91 avg rating — 345 ratings 185. 
Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool
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Abby Franquemont
4.43 avg rating — 936 ratings 187. 
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
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Jim Steinmeyer
4.16 avg rating — 1,032 ratings 188. 
Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
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John Soennichsen
4.08 avg rating — 252 ratings 189. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 190. 
To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing
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Simon Garfield
3.74 avg rating — 819 ratings 191. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,370 ratings 191. 
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
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Peter Moore
3.79 avg rating — 389 ratings 193. 
The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
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Graham Robb
3.37 avg rating — 951 ratings 
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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority
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Sue Fishkoff
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 232 ratings 195. 
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
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Rose George
3.79 avg rating — 4,366 ratings 197. 
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by:
Benjamin Wallace
3.56 avg rating — 8,151 ratings 197. 
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,412 ratings 199. 
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers
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Bryan Christy
3.93 avg rating — 659 ratings 199. 
The Greatest Knight: The Remarkable Life of William Marshal, The Power Behind Five English Thrones
by:
Thomas Asbridge
4.25 avg rating — 4,656 ratings